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Summary Information
Full Title

2007 Protocol 1 Designation of Transit Transport Routes and Facilities (ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Goods in Transit)

Short Title / Abbreviations

AFAFGIT Protocol 1

CIL Subject Classification
Date of Adoption 08/02/2007
Place of Adoption Bangkok, Thailand, 12th ASEAN Transport Ministers (ATM) Meeting
Issued/Adopted by Transport Ministers of ASEAN
Dispute settlement provisions

Pursuant to Article 5.2 of this instrument, “[t]his Protocol shall form an integral part of the [1998 ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Goods in Transit].”

Article 30 of the 1998 ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Goods in Transit refers to the consultation and dispute settlement rules and procedures in the 1996 Protocol on Dispute Settlement Mechanism.

The 1998 ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Goods in Transit and this Protocol 1 are  ‘Covered Agreements’ pursuant to Article 1.1 of the 2019 ASEAN Protocol on Enhanced Dispute Settlement Mechanism read together with its Appendix 1. They were previously “Covered Agreements” pursuant to Article 1.1 of the 2004 ASEAN Protocol on Enhanced Dispute Settlement Mechanism read together with its Appendix I. 

The 2019 Protocol will only apply with respect to new requests for consultations made on or after its entry into force (20 June 2022). Likewise, the 2004 Protocol will only apply with respect to disputes that arose after its entry into force (29 November 2004). The 1996 Protocol applies to all other disputes. 

Depository

Secretary-General of ASEAN

Annexes

List of Transit Transport Routes for Protocol 1

Entry Into Force Status In Force
Source

ASEAN Secretariat

Date of Entry into Force

21/08/2011

Entry into Force / Termination Provisions

Article 5.4 ‘Final Provisions’: “This Protocol shall enter into force on the sixtieth day after the deposit of the sixth Instrument of Ratification or Acceptance, and shall become effective only among the Contracting Parties that have ratified or accepted it. For each Contracting Party ratifying or accepting to the Protocol after the deposit of the sixth Instrument of Ratification or Acceptance, the Protocol shall enter into force on the sixtieth day after the deposit of such Contracting Party of its Instrument of Ratification or Acceptance.”

Status
ASEAN States (Source:

ASEAN Legal Instruments

as of 30/08/2022)
Brunei Darussalam Signature 08/02/2007
Ratification 26/10/2009
Cambodia Signature 08/02/2007
Ratification 27/10/2009
Indonesia Signature 08/02/2007
Ratification 29/11/2011
Lao PDR Signature 08/02/2007
Ratification 20/06/2011
Malaysia Signature 08/02/2007
Ratification 11/01/2018
Myanmar Signature 08/02/2007
Ratification 11/07/2014
Philippines Signature 08/02/2007
Ratification 13/11/2007
Singapore Signature 08/02/2007
Ratification 05/02/2018
Thailand Signature 08/02/2007
Ratification 22/06/2011
Vietnam Signature 08/02/2007
Approval 10/10/2007
Related Instruments
This instrument amends/supersedes

1998 ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Goods in Transit

Related Instruments

2018 Protocol 2 Designation of Frontier Posts (ASEAN Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Goods in Transit)

1999 Protocol 3 Types and Quantity of Road Vehicles (ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Goods in Transit)

1999 Protocol 4 Technical Requirements of Vehicles (ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Goods in Transit)

2001 Protocol 5 ASEAN Scheme of Compulsory Motor Vehicle Insurance (ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Goods in Transit)

2011 Protocol 6 Railways Border and Interchange Stations (ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Goods in Transit)

2015 Protocol 7 Customs Transit System (ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Goods in Transit)

2000 Protocol 8 Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures to Implement the ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Goods in Transit

2002 Protocol 9 Dangerous Goods (ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Goods in Transit)

2009 ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Inter-State Transport

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Additional Information

This Protocol adopts the 1999 Ministerial Understanding on the Development of the ASEAN Highway Network Project pursuant to Article 3.2.

Dates of ratification given above were obtained from the ASEAN Secretariat’s Legal Instruments website and its electronic collection of instruments of ratification, accession and notification. Some of the dates given appear to be the dates of execution of the instruments of ratification, rather than their date of receipt by the depository.